“As per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’,” he said in the letter seen by Reuters.

“The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.”

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    Ah, OK. Thank you, England, for helping to create a far more clear definition of “genocide”.

    Now I understand that, when a leader says “they deserve to all die” openly on national news, while actively carpet bombing them, it doesn’t mean they have an intent to destroy a certain group.

    Looking back I realise how very silly it was to mistake something so direct and obvious as genocide.

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    That’s strange. The International Association of Genocide Scholars explicitly said that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of Genocide under Article II of the UN Genocide Convention.

    https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf

    I guess we can trust a government that is actively supporting Israel and repressing protests to be telling us the truth, and a Prime Minister who said it was ok to cut off electricity and water to two million people in Gaza.

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    Basically they say that you’re free to genocide everything as long as they intent is not advertised. They also say that any form of protest is a crime, right. What a lovely country Britain is.

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      But the intent is advertised. Politicians of the ruling coalition have publicly referred to biblical myths of peoples getting exterminated by the Hebrews when referring to the Palestinians.

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    “We’ve investigated our co conspirators and determined they’ve done nothing wrong”

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    Duh they’re just setting up a resort for the Palestinians /s

    Jesus fucking Christ

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    David Lammy deserves the gallows. He should be dancing up there along with the rest of the Zionists.